The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-17
S. S. TEMPERANCE DAY.

At the recent session in Chicago of
the International Sunday-School con-
vention the following report was made
on Temperance:
Your committee reioices in the growing and
deepening conviction in the church and in the
Sunday school that the united and persistent
effort of all Christians must be made to oppose
the power of the liquor traffic in this land,
leaving the question of the special effort or
practical methods of working to be decided as
God shall give wisdom in each case We hope
this convention will record its determinat on to
so teach and train the children and youth com
mitted to our care that the next generation
will more earnestly and unitedly oppose, by all
suitable efforts, the use, sale or manufacture of
spurious and malt liquors as beverage
Speaking of the proceedings and ad-
dresses in the convention the Union
Signal says:
1.-THE memorial of the National Off
GERS to the International Sunday
School convention was read with
characteristic introduction, by General
Fisk, and by rules of convention re-
ferred to the Executive Committee.
Immediately following was the grand
address of Rev. d. c. Miner, Kansas,
on Sunday-School Temperance The
Sunday-schools and the saloons are en-
gagged in a struggle for the children,
the result depends largely upon what
we do to fortify the children against
intemperance. If not taught Temper
ance in Sunday-school, very many of
them will never be taught it any
where. Teach the Gospel, preach the
Gospel Yes, but do not let these ex-
pressions become can't phrases to cover
our unfaithfulness. Teach total abb
stinence, teach just what the Bible
says about drinking; teach them its eff
fects upon body, mind and soul, and
do not be afraid to teach them the
political phase of the question. Teach
prohibition as duty the State owes its
citizens as well as total abstinence the
duty which each individual owes to
himself and to the State. Teach our
boys to hate the traffic that murders
Haddock in Iowa, Northrup in Ohio,
Gambrell in Mississippi.
''Make good use of Temperance Day
in Sunday-school to impress lessons on
heart and mind. Let every Sunday
school be organized for Temperance
work, not having Temperance So
ciety within it, but being itself Tenn
perance society. Offer the pledge at
least twice year, and let the signing
of Is be a solemn matter
cat the conclusion of this admira-
bic address, President Reynolds called
on DR.. Ostrander to lead in prayer
that its lessons may be impressed on
each heart. His opening sentence
was: % Lord! this kind goeth not out
but by prayer and fasting. Help us,
that when the children are brought to
us possessed with this devil of intem-
perance, we may have power to cast it
out President Reynolds then re-
marked that we could not pass this
topic by without hearing from that
general of the Temperance force,
Clinton B. Fisk. General Fisk ex-
cused himself from speaking, saying
his well-known sentiments were too
radical to be aired on this occasion;
but cries of 60 on! go onr and round
after round of cheers overcame his re-
luctance. He said that the church
should lead in this reform. 1t usually
does, but there are some notable ex-
ceptions. We all know leading divine
who speaks of righteous drinking
He cited pitiful instance of the fall
of a young man through drink, who. in
his dying moments, in half drunken
stupor, reused by the question. How
did this come about?' responded: oh,
it is only little of righteous drink.
1t is for us to stand in our places to-
day, God will take care of results to-
morrow. What the Nation needs is
men of consecrated common sense on
this subject, instead of men of dollars
and cents.
1.-The Iowa delegation presented
strong resolution indorsing the work
of the National w. C. T. u, especially
in the department of scientific Tenn
perance instruction under the leader
ship of Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, which was
greeted with great applause.
cdr. Wharton, of Alabama, one of
the most eloquent speakers of the con-
vention, was never more eloquent than
when speaking of the Temperance
work in the South. We had all heard
much of the solid South: what he de-
sired was South solid against liquids.
And it is fast approaching this.
Georgia has an hundred and ten coun-
ties under prohibition through local
option, and Alabama is following hard
after her.
Zone kind of spirit rapping he be-
ieved in; he wished he could place all
the whisky barrels and the beer kegs
in row, a man with a sledge-hammer
at each one, himself at the head of the
row to give the signal at which all
should commence rap, rap, rapping,
and keep on till every drop of the
spirit dainnation was poured upon
the ground. lie strongly Endorsed the
teaching of Temperance lessons in the
Sunday-school.
cit was quite amusing. especially to
us old Temperance 'stagers,' who re-
member how difficult it has been to get
a place for Temperance on Sunday
school platforms, to note how the
speakers-no matter what was their
assigned topics-run off into Temper
ance. And nothing was received with
greater enthusiasm than this hitherto
tabooed subject. Cheer after cheer
greeted Temperance utterances, and
the more radical they were, the hartier
seemed the cheering.
'THE saloons are all tributary to an
archy. - George C. Lortnssr.